Yeah, you're right, I watched one season of Law and Order and thought "Great, I've seen 80% of all detective shows, no need to watch any more." /s
I think it comes down to personal taste. I could likewise see someone say that 80% of all soccer matches are the same. That once you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. And then on the opposite end you have people enjoying soccer who will be happy to tell you about the nuances between different matches, different players, different teams, etc.
I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. Every single service I have subscribed to has way more content that I want to watch than time I have to watch it. I watch maybe an hour a night, and I have a huge backlog of shows I’d like to watch that I slowly work through. Even my current list will take me years, and I have new shows to add all the time. Are these people…
There's plenty to watch. Just not much I consider worth my time. I can count on my fingers the number of movies and TV shows from the last couple years I was interested in. So why should I pay an arm and a leg for it? I could own physical copies of the material I care about for as much as they want me to pay in streaming subscriptions.
This seems different than the other takes, though. It sounds like you just don’t want to watch much tv, so it makes sense that you don’t want to pay for a streaming service. My main issue is with people who seem to imply there is a ton of great content out there but it just isn’t on streaming services. That had not been my experience.
The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Viscerally, Netflix doesn't feel like it belongs alongside Google, but it did, because it was good. How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech c…
this is factually incorrect. Disney bought a very successful sports streamer BAMTech to power Disney+
Oh, Jesus! BAMTech! How could I have forgotten a member of the vaunted FAANGB
One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age. I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
Why would you subcribe to repeat content? Your argument doesn't follow at all.
The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Viscerally, Netflix doesn't feel like it belongs alongside Google, but it did, because it was good. How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech c…
this is factually incorrect. Disney bought a very successful sports streamer BAMTech to power Disney+
Can you tell me how that changes the story for you?
The thing for me is that the media companies that thought they could just launch their own streaming services and keep all the money for themselves completely devalued the engineering of Netflix. It was "FAANG" for a reason. Viscerally, Netflix doesn't feel like it belongs alongside Google, but it did, because it was good. How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech c…
this is factually incorrect. Disney bought a very successful sports streamer BAMTech to power Disney+
huge +1. I havent worked in the encoding/delivery/CDN space for a few years but BAM was great. They aren't "pulling an HBO" as far as I can tell; they skipped the painful build your own platform from scratch learning experience. _Maybe_ Disney could have taken a different business approach with licensing. And arguably they took a bath on Disney+ costs initially. But I certainly wouldnt fault their technical implementation nor would I guess that content management/encoding/packaging/delivery is going to be a meaningful business problem for Disney+.
One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age. I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
Why would you subcribe to repeat content? Your argument doesn't follow at all.
Kids want to watch the same movie 937473829 times. In a row. That’s why GP said they were subscribed. I know several new-ish parents in the same boat with Disney+, specifically.
Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are effectively paying 8x the price.
Does anyone has experience with cancelling and switching services periodically so that you can access all the content, but not at the same time?
This works, but you're quickly getting into more effort than piracy. Valve figured this stuff out many years ago.
Simple enough: stealing is bad, but sharing is good. If you had a replicator and could make physical things for free to give to your neighbors, of course you'd do that.
And the people who work on Sesame Street will feed and clothe and shelter themselves with the things you give them with your (nonexistent) replicator.
We don't watch Sesame Street (or much TV at all), but if we did, we'd probably stick to the pre-elmo stuff. Jim Henson died when I was an infant so I imagine he'd not be much worse off if we did pirate it. Fred Rogers would probably similarly not have much to complain about if we copied his show. Or Tex Avery, etc. etc.
this is factually incorrect. Disney bought a very successful sports streamer BAMTech to power Disney+
Can you tell me how that changes the story for you?
it discounts the entire parent post. BAMTech wasn't a shitty in-house development, it was a billion dollar buyout of the widely acclaimed MLB streamer.